Bitlbee

Jan 8, 2017

[ ] add info on bitlbee daemon

Soooo…, I happen to like using IRC and IRC clients. And what an awesome idea to bring every other form of chat into the same client, one ring to rule them all. And since I have Weechat set up well and good, I can even access these from my Android.

But how can we have all these other forms of chat, like Facebook, AIM, MSN, Google Hangouts, etc, brought into our IRC client?!

With Bitlbee, woohoo!

These will start out as the roughest of notes, and hopefully I can fill them out further at a later date. As well, they will be focussed to installation on Ubuntu 16.04 GNU/Linux, so you will need to adapt for your system.

Installation

In order for the bitlbee-facebook install to work, you will need a new enough version of bitlbee. The instructions are to add the following to apt repository, you can put it in a file named bitlbee for instance.